The Influence Of Welfare And Social Policies

However, with new people in government the trends were reversed and policies were aimed at individual responsibility instead of relying on the government. Federal legislation transferred more of the responsibility of welfare programs to the states instead of the federal government. ”This approach involved privatization, a policy that transfers control from government to private enterprise that allocated public funds to private profit-making or nonprofit entities that then provide benefits or services” (Chapin, 2014, p.96). The idea was that by cutting social programs and reinvesting tax dollars it would increase economic growth, however, the programs that were affected were for people with low-income. During the Reagan and Bush administration changes were made that hurt people instead of helping them because they do not make structural changes.
Social policies used the pathology approach for the reasoning for why people could not help themselves and provide for their needs. People with disabilities, mental illness, and addictions were targeted and turned down for assistance because the laws were changed for defining disability and people no longer